Carmen Carrera Quotes

We just want to help people understand that it's okay to be transgender, and they're just like everyone else.

I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.

It's OK to be talking to one another about what it means to be transgender. We don't have to shield everyone from the existence of people like me.

I always knew that transgenders are allowed to join Miss Universe and win Miss Universe. So they're welcome to join.

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

I think what people need to realize is that, with trans people, we're like everybody else. No group of people are all the same. All women are not the same, all men are not the same, all children are not the same. It's the same thing with trans people - we're all so different, we have different goals, different dreams, and different aspirations.

This entire issue of transgender people posing a kind of threat to cisgender women in bathrooms is made up. We are just like everybody else - we go into the bathroom, we keep our heads down, we don't look at anybody.

We exist in a culture where trans people are constantly delegitimized.

Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

If no one knew that I was trans - let's say that I made it very, very far. Let's say I went to the UFC and became a UFC champion, even, won the belt title, took it home and no one ever knew - that would be great for me.

I wouldn't change myself at all. Being transgender makes me who I am: a strong person, a confident person. Being transgender gives me my personality.

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?

Transgender women especially feel like we have to fit the binary system to a T in order to not be recognized as trans.

It's true. I'm not a spokesperson. But I can say now that transgendered people like to be heard and to be respected.

My name is Sarah McBride, and I am a proud transgender American.

I believe that I am transgender to help people understand differences. It allows me to gain perspective, to be more accepting of others, because I know what it feels like to know you're not like everyone else.

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.

What's infuriating is when cis people think celebrating me is celebrating transness.

I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

If what the transgender movement seeks is acceptance, association with the Kardashian circus is the last thing it needs.

It was easier to forget, or be dismissive about, transgender issues when there weren't transgender staffers or interns walking the halls of the White House.